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/ 7 December 2005
Hamlet’s father runs a club — not a kingdom — and the ”sweet prince” drunkenly raps a version of his famous ”To be or not to be” soliloquy in a modern take on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays by a group of teenagers. Brainstorming ideas for a project promoting non-violence, Chicago students chose a work in which almost all the main characters are dead by the time the curtain falls.
A new study sheds new light on euthanasia in The Netherlands, the first country to legalise it for terminally ill people, finding that nearly one in eight adult patients who requested mercy killings decided not to go through with it. Nearly half of the euthanasia requests were carried out.